These can be called the ordinary people. In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus delegitimizes ordinary people for being stuck in self-set boundaries and social roles, "the absurd man realizes hitherto he was bound to the postulate of freedom on the illusion of which he was living." ... The narrator of The Plague Doctor Rieux, who is also Camus voice, differs in opinion of the ordinary people during the plague. ... The doctor does not condemn the people who chose not to fight the plague. He views these ordinary people with dignity for coping while faced with such an extreme situation. ...

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He is so exited about traveling, meeting new people and visiting new places. He used to live his ordinary life with his sheeps. ... Feeding his sheeps and traviling to the ordinary places that he has seen thousands of times in his life. His life is so ordinary but he always dreams of different lands different people. ... Santiago's ordinary life goes on until the day he meets the strange old guy... ...

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The people still only worry about being on time and nothing else. ... "(2) If you look at the times of the people going to work and the people leaving work it is exactly that time, the people aren't a minute late or a minute early. ... Notice how the people going to work walk left right left, and the people leaving work walk right-left-right. ... When the Harlequin drops the jellybeans on the workers they see it as a horrible thing because it isn't everyday something out of the ordinary happens. ... There are many symbolic meanings in this story too, like the jellybeans, showing...

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However, Simpson's assertions don't end here; fetuses are not an ordinary "organ of [the female] body]...but an organism [Simpson 6].... Alas, murder always shreds the moral fabric and ethical code most people otherwise abide by. ... Do ordinary signals of activity equate to human life?... This doesn't mention the crippling effects of teenagers who become mothers as they are much more likely to leave school, receive inadequate prenatal care, rely on public assistance to raise their children, develop health problems of their own, and create stress levels that impair people. ...

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The main character and her husband are "ordinary" in respects to her own individual classification of the term, "ordinary". ... The symbolism between the two student sample essays allow for us to see variations between people and how they interpret differently the same story. ...

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The beautifully embroidered letter does not glow in the eyes of the people. ... "It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her in a sphere by herself." (40) However, the people's attitude does change. ... Such helpfulness was found in her--so much power to do and power to sympathize--that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification," (110) and now believed it to represent the concept of "able." ... The changing attitudes of the people in her society did eventually acknowledge the brave, strong woma...

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Two people enquire as to whether or not he will be signing up to fight. ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." The hypocrisy of human nature is displayed, using Connie as a representative, whereby she discourages the fighting between the people in her own town, yet encourages Jim to enlist, in order to fight in a war of which he is completely ignorant. ...

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Frankl does not dwell unnecessarily on personal hardship, but he uses his experience and observations to illustrate the life of the ordinary prisoner. ... Ultimately, Frankl makes a judgment as severe as the biblical division of the sheep from the goats: There are only two races of people-the race of decent men and the race of indecent men. ... Sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life  may have suffered much pain (they were often of a delicate  constitution), but the damage to their inner selves was less. ... I do not want to go through life without a meaning, without affec...

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People are often too distracted by money and materialistic things to appreciate truth and reality. ... When people are consumed in the shallow world, they see reality as mere shadows compared to truth. ... Many people search for happiness by engulfing themselves in life's highest pleasures, others look for contentment by over-working themselves to try and be the richest. ... By surmounting the influence of society, one can withstand the evil displayed and look inside the ordinary, in order to find the extraordinary. ...

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In some respects I always knew that my dad was an extraordinary man, but I never understood just how out of the ordinary he really was. ... Of all the people I have come across, none of them have held but the highest regard for him. ... In a world where there are so many negatives to focus on, he is one of the few people who is always happy and thankful. ...

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For example, Raymond Williams defined culture in his 1965 book, The Long Revolution, as "a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and learning, but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. ... According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... First, communication, like what people from the transmission perspective would agree, involves at least two persons. ... This point highlights an essential aspect of communication's nature: As people maintain their relationship through c...

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As Bartleby's behavior causes his ordinary world of routine and unshaken "assumptions" to collapse," the lawyer is forced to confront issues about the human condition from which he had been previously sheltered. ... " he wonders when he realizes that Bartleby neither converses with other people nor reads. ...

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